Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 2009)

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Robert Hauptman is professor emeritus of St. Cloud State University and editor of the Journal of Information Ethics.

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Edited by Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 120
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2009
ISSN 1061-9321
Imprint: McFarland

Editorial: Surveillance: Ubiquitous and Oppressive
Robert Hauptman      3

COLUMNS
Academics
Writing for Eternity
Joseph S. Fulda      5

PsychInfo
Execute the Mother Who Killed Her Children?
Russell Eisenman      8

Current Issues
Is It Really Hip to Be Hype-Happy?
Bob Dorsett      11

ARTICLES
The Ethics of Piracy in the Music Industry
S. R. Ponelis and J. J. Britz      14
Information Inflation
Jasper Doomen      27
Ethics in the IT Classroom: Why and How?
David Larson and Keith W. Miller      38
The Digital Divide in Asia
Tanveer Zia, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Md Zahidul Islam, Lihong Zheng, and John Weckert      50
Censored by the Publicly Funded Academy of American Poets
G. Tod Slone      77

Reviews      86
Web Briefs      114
Article Alerts      117